[CA pgfr] Creating a PUG in Montreal

[ioguix at free.fr]

I used to old pgfr CA mailing-list in my first mail...

Sorry for for noise !

/me shouldn't write mail before going to bed

ioguix wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I write you today to get some advice and help to add a new PUG in the map 
> in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Most of you already know me as a member for 
> pgfr folks or just meet me briefly in lasts pgCon at Ottawa.
> 
> I'm writing this mail in english mostly for Selena and any other person
> who could recieve this mail througth some forwardings.
> 
> This new PUG we could be MTLPUG (or anything else better :)), but lets use 
> this name in this mail presently.
> 
> My vision of MLTPUG is a PUG working closely with the PostgreSQLFR (pgfr) 
> association, idealy with everyone member of pgfr to support it. Pgfr has 
> always been dedicated to all french spoken community so this PUG would make 
> this association really grows outside of the French borders, bring some 
> more help on its projects and support the french spoken community here to 
> attend OSS events.
> 
> With the upcoming 8.4 and the pgDay.fr this next fall, we'll have lot to do 
> to help on every topics we could...and obviously having some social events 
> to chill out as well :).
> 
> I wrote the announce about the MTLPUG creation process (see attachment, 
> french written). I'll try to publish it via different OSS qnd PG related 
> web sites and mailing-lists:
> - MLUG: http://www.mlug.ca/cms/
> - PHPQuebec: http://www.phpquebec.org/
> - mailing list pgsql-fr-generale
> - Obvioulsy PostgreSQL.org and PgFR
> (I even could make my own blog to aggregate to the french planète ! :))
> 
> And maybe sending it to the local OSS companies:
> - Révolution Linux
> - Savoir Faire Linux
> Both pg-friendly and where I already meet some people.
> 
> Any other sources are welcome !
> 
> Selena, as the PUGs coordinator and a real master in communication, do you 
> have some advices ?
> Moreover I believe a mailing list could help to launch this PUG, 
> referencing it in the first announce and setting up the first meeting 
> througth it. Are you the one who manage PUG lists ?
> 
> French spoken persons, could you please re-read the annouce and give me 
> some feedback about it?
> 
> Robert Bernier, do you have some more contacts in Montréal I should send 
> this announce to ? And are you interested about such a project if you are 
> around ?
> 
> Thanks to everyone for your feedback, and Happy new year to those I hand't 
> wished it so far ;)

-- 
Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
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